TRN204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Law Society, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Torture Memos
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Go to person for advice/counsel about something related to expertise. Education spend a lot of time studying to be a professional. Not just obligation to make a good living bigger & broader implications in society. Professionalism expertise + judgement + a whole lot of discretion. As consequence of education/qualifications allowed to give judgement. Law remains today as very privileged profession. Had to have latin to pass the bar/certified as lawyer. Didn"t used to be you had to go to law school. Small group of people who learned latin privileged class that able to go to specific schools. Affect values/definitions of professionalism based on characteristics of who created. Collegiality historically just placeholder for small group of homogenous members all having the same way of thinking. Grounded in who made up the profession early on. Civility call to arms by legal ethics/judges. Lost our way in law become rude in court, don"t act like gentlemen.
